Employee Relations in ContextCIPD Publishing, 2000 - 455 pages Employment relations expert David Farnham proceeds from incisive analysis of the issues surrounding employment today to the challenges at the heart of the workplace. These include employee involvement, negotiating with unions, grievance handling and industrial action. This updated edition includes: recent employment legislation; New Labour's impact on employee relations; developments in the EU; and union and non-union issues for managers. |
Contents
Interests in employee relations | 4 |
Conflictresolving processes | 10 |
External influences | 18 |
Assignments | 24 |
Models of employee relations management | 35 |
Employee organisations | 48 |
The European Trade Union Confederation | 54 |
Complaints heard by employment tribunals | 57 |
Functions of joint consultative committees | 260 |
Examples of joint consultative committee rules | 261 |
Management and Trade Unions | 266 |
Trade union policy | 275 |
The TUCs definition of union objectives | 280 |
The TUCs definition of union means | 282 |
The TUCs definition of union methods | 283 |
Trade union strategy | 287 |
The Central Arbitration Committee CAC | 60 |
Processes of Employee Relations | 67 |
Written particulars of the main terms and conditions of employment | 69 |
General principles clauses in procedural agreements | 76 |
Union recognition and facilities procedure | 77 |
Procedure for individual grievances | 78 |
Procedure to avoid collective disputes | 79 |
Procedural clauses in newstyle collective agreements | 81 |
Unilateral action and industrial sanctions | 87 |
Main employment protection rights | 93 |
Main membership rights of trade unionists | 94 |
Rights of independent recognised trade unions and timeoff provisions | 95 |
The rights and responsibilities of works councils in Germany | 98 |
Economic and Legal Policy | 104 |
Major tax incentives 197997 | 112 |
The Changing Contexts of Employee Relations | 129 |
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The political context | 162 |
NonUnion Firms Employee Involvement | 179 |
Information provision and channels | 187 |
Examples of information on company progress | 188 |
Collective Bargaining and Joint Consultation | 218 |
Bargaining power | 230 |
Advantages of multiemployer bargaining | 236 |
Disadvantages of singleemployer bargaining | 237 |
Main features of newstyle collective agreements | 249 |
The bargaining agenda for TUC unions since the 1990s | 288 |
ETUC policy on EMU | 300 |
Reforms to the Community treaties supported by the ETUC | 301 |
The law and trade union membership | 302 |
Unjustifiable union discipline | 305 |
Clauses in recognition agreements | 312 |
Statutory union recognition | 316 |
Public Policy and the European Social | 326 |
the challenge | 338 |
Major developments in European integration since 1951 | 362 |
Coverage of the Social Chapter | 364 |
Collective industrial action | 371 |
Key points for management in preparing for industrial action | 394 |
Possible responses by employers to industrial action | 398 |
The Skills of Employee Relations | 405 |
Uses of adjournments during negotiations | 412 |
Interpersonal and analytical skills in negotiation | 413 |
Handling grievances | 414 |
Basic elements of a grievance procedure | 415 |
Example of grievance procedure | 416 |
Principles of natural justice in employment | 422 |
Principles of binding arbitration in individual employment disputes | 431 |
Managing redundancy | 432 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 441 |
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